There are several companies on the web today who offer excellent affiliate programs. However, if you think you just have to sign up to become an affiliate and sit back waiting for the checks to start rolling in, it’s just not gonna happen.
You CAN make good money as an affiliate but it will take some effort and time on your part.
Learn how to make money from home:
1. Make sure that the company you sign up with has some sort of “training” site, or tips for selling their product.
2. Look at their commission tiers. Do you have room for advancement? Will you make a commission from the affiliates you refer? Can you earn residual income?
3. Do they offer gateway websites? In other words, do they offer a ready-made website with your unique affiliate ID# that you can promote, or do you need to have your own website.
4. Are their products something that you yourself would be interested in or benefit from?
5. Do they offer several streams of income or only one or two?
6. Promoting is the single most important aspect of any successful business.
7. Be sure to utilize the training and tips offered on your members-only site.
8. Designate a specific time each day to work on your new business and stick to it.
9. Be persistent and don’t get discouraged. It will most likely take several months to see real profits start rolling in, but they WILL roll in if you stay on course.
For example, here’s the hype-free way to really make money with an Amazon.com.
1. Decide on your topic. You’re going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about.
2. Choose your domain name. Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Register your domain name.
3. Set up your web hosting. Some are as little as $4 a month, with unlimited domains, i.e., you can run several sites on the same hosting package.
4. Install blog software. It will give your site all the structure, easy to quickly post new content. My pick is WordPress, which is open source (i.e., free), easy to install and use, and yet very powerful. Set up categories. Most blog software allows you to create sub-categories to help organize your entries. This will help visitors narrow in even more specifically on their interests.
5. Sign up as an Amazon Associate. It’s simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page.
6. Create your blog posting bookmarks/links. There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a “bookmarklet”.
7. Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link. This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.
8. Build your first link. Go to Amazon and log in with your Associates account. Find the product you want to review and use the Site Stripe (gray stripe at the top of the screen that you’ll see when logged in as an Associate) to get your personalized link to the item. They also offer a variety of other options for creating links and banners
9. Blog your review. Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you’re using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with “Associates Build-A-Link >”. Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.
10. Build out your site. Before you promote your site, you want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews. Have at least 2-3 in each category you’ve created. The more content your site has, the better. And the great thing is that while you’re writing all this, the search engines are getting notified automatically.
11. Promote your site. The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed.
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